The art of winning tenders has changed
A year ago, the tendering environment here was very different from today. Work was gushing out of government, tenderers could pick and choose the bids...
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Leadership needed on pre-qualification
By Peter Silcock, chief executive, CCNZ OUR ASSOCIATION HAS supported pre-qualification as it is a mechanism to exclude cowboys from bidding for work and to...
Strong case for a NZQA generic procurement qualification
By Caroline Boot, Clever Buying. Public sector organisations spend more than $99 billion of taxpayer and ratepayer money each year, which is more than 40...
Lowest price seldom delivers outcomes
This article first appeared in Contractor March 2017. By MALCOLM ABERNETHY, Executive officer, Civil Contractors New Zealand THE ISSUE OF LOWEST price versus value for...
Government procurement rules
CAROLINE BOOT, PLAN A TENDER SPECIALISTS SINCE FEBRUARY THE Government’s Rules of Sourcing have been mandatory for a whole bunch more organisations than...